ID:
501071
Duration (hours):
36
CFU:
6
SSD:
LINGUA E LETTERATURA GRECA
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 22/05/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, the student will achieve the following outcomes:
1) appropriate knowledge of Greek language and literature of the Hellenistic and Roman Ages;
2) ability to appropriate contextualization of the main Greek literary genres of those periods and strengthening of personal critical skills through reading and analysis of texts pertaining to the same periods;
3) ability to make autonomous and conscious judgments on the topics of the course;
4) ability to communicate the course contents to both specialists and non-specialists, by debating issues and proposing arguments and solutions;
5) acquisition of necessary skills for the autonomous deepening of the course topics and of the main aspects of the ancient Greek language and literature, with special reference to the Hellenistic and Roman Ages.
1) appropriate knowledge of Greek language and literature of the Hellenistic and Roman Ages;
2) ability to appropriate contextualization of the main Greek literary genres of those periods and strengthening of personal critical skills through reading and analysis of texts pertaining to the same periods;
3) ability to make autonomous and conscious judgments on the topics of the course;
4) ability to communicate the course contents to both specialists and non-specialists, by debating issues and proposing arguments and solutions;
5) acquisition of necessary skills for the autonomous deepening of the course topics and of the main aspects of the ancient Greek language and literature, with special reference to the Hellenistic and Roman Ages.
Course Prerequisites
3rd-year students of Laurea in Lettere must have passed the exam of Letteratura greca 1.
Teaching Methods
In-presence lessons, implying lively interaction and recourse to multimedia.
Assessment Methods
The exam is oral and aims to verify the knowledge of: 1) contents, learning materials and Greek texts proposed in the classroom; 2) the bibliography recommended; 3) one Greek poetry text chosen among those proposed in the exam program, with metrical reading; 4) the historical outline of the Greek literature in Hellenistic and Roman age (3rd c. BC-3rd c. AD).
Texts
Reference editions
For Lucian:
Lucian, Vitarum auctio; Piscator, edited by Joel B. Itzkowitz. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1992.
For Apollonius and Theocritus:
Any school or affordable (student) edition is acceptable.
For the literary history component, recommended textbook:
F. Montanari – F. Montana (with collaboration) (2022), Storia della letteratura greca. II: L’età ellenistica e l’età imperiale, New edition, Rome; alternatively, a high-school textbook may be used (subject to prior discussion with the instructor).
Useful reference materials for metrical reading: B. Gentili – L. Lomiento (2012), Metrica e ritmica. Storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Milan (1st ed. 2003); M. C. Martinelli (1995), Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna.
For Lucian:
Lucian, Vitarum auctio; Piscator, edited by Joel B. Itzkowitz. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1992.
For Apollonius and Theocritus:
Any school or affordable (student) edition is acceptable.
For the literary history component, recommended textbook:
F. Montanari – F. Montana (with collaboration) (2022), Storia della letteratura greca. II: L’età ellenistica e l’età imperiale, New edition, Rome; alternatively, a high-school textbook may be used (subject to prior discussion with the instructor).
Useful reference materials for metrical reading: B. Gentili – L. Lomiento (2012), Metrica e ritmica. Storia delle forme poetiche nella Grecia antica, Milan (1st ed. 2003); M. C. Martinelli (1995), Gli strumenti del poeta. Elementi di metrica greca, Bologna.
Contents
The exam syllabus is organized into four parts:
1) Monographic course: Philosophical parody and comic memory in Lucian of Samosata (Vitarum Auctio and Piscator).
Contents, teaching materials, and Greek texts presented in class.
2) Required readings:
• A. Camerotto, Le metamorfosi della parola. Studi sulla parodia in Luciano di Samosata, Pisa 1998, chapters 1, 2, 3.
Or, alternatively, the two following texts:
• S. Fornaro, Un uomo senza volto. Introduzione alla lettura di Luciano di Samosata, Bologna 2019, chapters 1, 2, 8, 14.
• S. Goldhill (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Lucian, Cambridge 2024, chapters 2 (R. Hunter, Lucian and the culture of criticism), and 4 (P. Van Nuffelen, Lucian and Philosophy).
3) Independent preparation of: Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica I, vv. 1–150 and one Idyll among: Theocritus, Idyll 1, 11, 15
NB: reading in the original hexameter is required.
4) History of Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Imperial periods (3rd century BC – 3rd century AD).
1) Monographic course: Philosophical parody and comic memory in Lucian of Samosata (Vitarum Auctio and Piscator).
Contents, teaching materials, and Greek texts presented in class.
2) Required readings:
• A. Camerotto, Le metamorfosi della parola. Studi sulla parodia in Luciano di Samosata, Pisa 1998, chapters 1, 2, 3.
Or, alternatively, the two following texts:
• S. Fornaro, Un uomo senza volto. Introduzione alla lettura di Luciano di Samosata, Bologna 2019, chapters 1, 2, 8, 14.
• S. Goldhill (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Lucian, Cambridge 2024, chapters 2 (R. Hunter, Lucian and the culture of criticism), and 4 (P. Van Nuffelen, Lucian and Philosophy).
3) Independent preparation of: Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica I, vv. 1–150 and one Idyll among: Theocritus, Idyll 1, 11, 15
NB: reading in the original hexameter is required.
4) History of Greek literature of the Hellenistic and Imperial periods (3rd century BC – 3rd century AD).
Course Language
Italian
More information
The teaching materials will be made available in the library or on the Kiro e-learning platform (https://elearning.unipv.it/).
Students who are unable to attend classes are invited to contact the instructor in order to arrange an alternative or supplementary programme.
Students who are unable to attend classes are invited to contact the instructor in order to arrange an alternative or supplementary programme.
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